Anta from Bobadela

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Anta from Bobadela
Anta from Bobadela

Discovered in 1966, Anta von Bobadela (formerly also known as Anta do Pinheiro dos Abraços or Pinhal da Coitena) is located between vineyards near the road, northeast of Bobadela in its largely preserved hill of stones and earth, about 3.0 km northwest of Oliveira do Hospital in the Coimbra district in Portugal . Anta is the Portuguese name for around 5000 megalithic structures or dolmens , which were built during the Neolithic in the west of the Iberian Peninsula by the successors of the cardial or imprint culture .

Anta from Bobadela

The old name of the dolmen comes from a now defunct (lost) pine whose trunk was so thick that it took seven men to hug it. The community of Bobadela originated in the 1st to 4th centuries AD and was called "Splendidissimae Civita (splendid community)" by the Romans.

With the exception of the capstones of the chamber and corridor, almost all of the elements, the large anta with polygonal chamber made of eight cut-off bearing stones (five preserved) with the corridor about seven meters long, are preserved.

The Anta was built about 6000 years ago for a small number of individuals who were buried in it with various additions. The lithic materials include, blades, knives, microliths and polished axes . The pottery consisted of half a dozen vessels, some of which are decorated. After a few decades of use, it was abandoned and reused centuries later. This is shown by some fragments of smooth or decorated manual ceramics, as well as a copper arrowhead .

The Anta is next to the Dólmen de São Pedro Dias the southernmost in the north of Portugal and is located directly on the edge of a megalith-free zone in the regional center of the country

The Anta is protected by decree (Classificado como Imóvel deinterest Público; IIP) of 1992.

literature

  • Philine Kalb: Megalithics on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. In: Karl W. Beinhauer et al. (Ed.): Studies on megalithics: state of research and ethnoarchaeological perspectives. Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe 21. 1999, 115–122. (Mannheim)

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Coordinates: 40 ° 22 ′ 1.5 ″  N , 7 ° 52 ′ 46.3 ″  W.